The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ordered tougher addiction warnings for several widely used ...

Often prescribed to treat conditions such as pain, insomnia and anxiety, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has decided that gabapentinoids, benzodiazepines and z-drugs ...

Strengthened warning labels about the risks of addiction will be placed on benzodiazepines such as Valium (diazepam), which ...

Nearly all — 99 percent — of primary care physicians give patients prescriptions for potentially addictive opioid painkillers for longer than the three-day period recommended by the CDC, National ...

Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively uncommon source for those at highest risk for deadly overdoses ...

Americans consume a staggering amount of the opioid painkiller hydrocodone, about 99 percent of the world's supply. In October, after 10 years of debate the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reclassified ...

Painkiller addictions are becoming more of a hollywood woe. Feb. 22, 2008 — -- Hollywood stars usually set the trends that the rest of us follow — in the cities, to suburbia and beyond. But not ...

The 53-year-old reality star — who appears on the TLC show with her ex-husband Kody Brown and their polygamist family — revealed in her new memoir that she started taking oxycodone in 2016, after ...